Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-looking and so young." On her recent first trip to Manhattan, she surprised her transport pilot with her ready ear for smoking-car subtleties. So far she has said nothing in public except "H-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." This is delivered in the tone of a cordial spinster to the man under...
Refining his diagnosis, Professor Trueblood, a Quaker, declares of most current church practice: "What mankind desperately needs is Justice, Mercy and Truth, but what we are offered is some ugly stained-glass windows and a holy tone and a collection plate full of dimes...
...Between Two Worlds" achieves a dramatic excellence that hits you between the eyes at only one point--where big and jovial Sidney Greenstreet as the Examiner interviews the applicants for admission into the Beyond. While a false air of attempted spiritual tone ruins the atmosphere in most of the rest of the movie, here Greenstreet does an inspired...
...dull moments and makes the movie outstanding revolves around Fanny her intense pro-occupation with personal beauty, blotting out her true nature even to herself. The desperate struggle to carry beauty into old age is touching cinema, get in an early twentieth-century atmosphere with a compelling, heavy, suspenseful tone. The mood is tense, the effect like a fizzling fuse of dynamite...
...implacable lines set the tone for the bloody terror that still racked the Reich a fortnight after Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb under the Führer's table and blew the crisis between the Nazi Party and the Army officers wide open...